We've built the platform primarily for companies that serve LLMs in production, so even if we allowed you to fine-tune on device, sooner or later you will find yourself in a position where you want to deploy the model.
We want to streamline this whole process, end-to-end.
With that being said, I do agree that we shouldn't store everything on the cloud, this is what we're doing about it:
1. Any data in FinetuneDB like evals, logs, datasets etc. can be exported or deleted.
2. Fine-tuned model weights for OS models can be downloaded.
3. Using our inference stack is not a requirement. Many users are happy with only the dataset manager (which is 100% free).
4. We are exploring options to integrate external databases and storage providers with FinetuneDB, allowing datasets to be stored off our servers